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We were all taught as children that honesty is the best policy. Sometimes the truth hurts, but lying is much more harmful. So we do our best to be upfront and honest with everyone we meet, occasionally bending the truth to spare someone’s feelings. Until one day we realize just how many lies have been surrounding us our entire lives…

From misleading statements companies tell to gain their customers' trust to propaganda governments spread to keep their citizens in line, Reddit users have recently been sharing some of the biggest lies that have been told in human history. So enjoy reading through this list, pandas, and be sure to upvote the lies you’ve heard far too many times!

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying > …there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! The late, the great George Carlin.

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Vaccines cause autism. F**k those gullible idiots.

Low-Celery-7728 , FRANK MERIÑO Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anti-vax parents that refuse to immunise their children should be charged with murder if their child dies of a preventable disease - or if their child transmits a preventable disease to another who dies. No ifs and buts.

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the above Terms and Conditions."

SuvenPan , Alena Darmel Report

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Tax cuts for the rich will benefit everyone.

Ok-Cantaloupe7160 , Kebs Visuals Report

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Trickle down would work if the rich weren't so super absorbent that they suck.

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying America stands for freedom and liberty.

I don't think there is a decade in US history where there wasn't someone somewhere being cruelly oppressed by the US or by someone heavily supported (i.e. controlled) by the US.

GravityTracker , Karolina Grabowska Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just ask Florida, where schoolchildren are now fighting for the freedom to...wait for it...READ.

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Your religion is the correct one. Lol the “main reason” why “most people” believe what they believe is because they were born into part of the world in which the religion is popular.

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying You can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

Affectionate_Yam251 , Julia M Cameron Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have been wondering about Mr Elon Musk. He could essentially be Batman, but he has decided emulate Joker instead.

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "Your call is important to us."

TwoDrinkDave , Karolina Grabowska Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Your call is important to us, please hold for the next available representative. The current wait time is 1 hour". Call disconnects after 45 minutes. Immediately call back..."You call is....yadda yadda yadda...the current wait time is 3 hours."

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#9

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying “The war won’t last long.”

Cephalobara , Alena Darmel Report

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#10

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying If you're a good person, good things will happen to you.

SpykeATA , Liza Summer Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then please explain why innocent people get cancer, tumors and whatnot and evil people get away with it

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying There are hot singles in my area dying to meet me.

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying We are a family and care about our employees.

Irondaddy_29 , RDNE Stock project Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your reward for hard work is more work and the second the company needs to save a buck you’ll be kicked to the curb.

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#13

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Looks don’t matter.

hollowbutt3rfly , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They sure do, even if we don't want them to. We are programmed to respond positively to physical beauty. The best thing we can do is be aware of it, so we can consciously counter it.

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying You don’t need a union. We will take care of you.

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Money won't make you happy.

OkOwl2339 , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Money won't make you happy but it makes it a hell of a lot easier to be happy

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying God. Pick a religion, any religion.

meaneggsandscram , Rodolfo Clix Report

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#17

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying " If elected... "

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Blah blah blah - I hear politicians talk & I hear voices from Peanuts

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Superior races based on melanin content.

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"It's noble to die for your country."

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#20

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "Yes, I will remember to cancel the subscription just before the free trial ends."

Impossible_Donut_418 , Alex Koch Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They should send you an email when your free trial ends.. haha it would seem to be honest, but ofcourse i also understand the companies.

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Your baby is beautiful.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I said this lie recently and you know what? I'll do it again and again because I'm not telling any new parent out there that their new baby is ugly

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#22

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying That anyone can become rich in a society that is ruled by people who need poor laborers to keep the wheels of commerce grinding.

countdoofie , Tahavvul Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's just capitalism, Baebee! 😎 Just keep telling yourself that you live in a meritocracy and get back to work!

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "Everything happens for a reason."

Samoderzhets , Michael Burrows Report

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#24

40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "Push Flap to Open" on the Kraft Mac and Cheese box.

ZeroSequence , Mike Mozart Report

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#25

Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq: The claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was used as a justification for the 2003 invasion by the U.S. and allied forces. This turned out to be false and had a profound impact on global politics and led to significant loss of life. 

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bush just wanted to finish what his daddy started. And we allowed it for two decades.

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Not necessarily a lie, but people have the misconception that Europeans invented slavery in the 15th century.

Slavery is something that has existed across the world, for millenia.

And there were large scale slave trade networks established by other powers, such as the Trans Saharan slave trade established by the Islamic caliphate after their conquest of North Africa.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoever thinks that didn't have history classes? Everyone knows slavery was present in antiquity.

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#27

Diamonds are rare.

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "You won't always have a calculator."

Jack_Bartowski , RDNE Stock project Report

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "The customer is always right." I want to know who came up with that. They are wrong.

lugarius1990 , Clem Onojeghuo Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the full saying is actually the customer is always right in matters of taste

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Men are better than women.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Men and women are not equal in many places. But their rights should be equal and neither gender is inferior to the other in general. Both genders have what they are better at and what they are not as good at.

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I feel like the most recent one is this idea of “the American dream”, that anybody from the lowliest street sweeper can be a successful billionaire if they just work hard enough.

The older I get the more transparent that becomes as a veiled attempt to propagate capitalism by keeping the fast food workers and trash collectors of the population scurrying about working as hard as they can to serve the higher classes…It’s so obvious when you think about it for more than a few minutes, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that the lucky few to have actually achieved this are the exceptions, not the rule.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't tax millionaires more, because I could be a millionaire tomorrow.

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying The Banks are too Big to fail.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This makes me sick. LET THEM FAIL. No business should be free from the consequences of their bad decisions and unethical treatment of employees and customers.

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“The Native Americans worked with the early settlers to create Thanksgiving”

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Youll get arthiritis by cracking your knuckles.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A guy heard that at age 5 and spent the next 50 years cracking the knuckles of only one hand - no difference between hands (pretty young start for a scientist)

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Fat makes you fat.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not a total lie, just the way it was over/misrepresented for many years when the main cause of obesity is simply eating too much. Just as these days the focus on sugar means that so many products are replacing it with artificial sweeteners (which I personally find disgusting) instead of people simply eating less of it.

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying "Capitalism isn't perfect, but it's the best system we've got." If that were true, how come we spend so much time worrying and paying people to [take out] and destabilize every democratically elected socialist government? The Military Industrial Complex is basically a money grab fueled by having to fight the right wing dictators we put into office, and making new weapons to compete with the ones that we sell to our enemies.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The problem is - people. Communism could be a brilliant system if it wasn't for people. Nasty, venal things.

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#37

That we are free. We live on a paradise of a planet that is essentially a prison. Very few are actually free.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Go be free in the woods with nothing, or be enslaved by the comforts of society.

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The serving sizes on bags of chips.

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying Carrots make you see in the dark. i ate so much and turned orange for nothing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this was world war 2 propaganda from the UK to cover for the fact we had Radar

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40 Of The Biggest ‘Lies’ Told In Human History That People No Longer Are Buying No strings attached.

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